On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:07PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > > Please help > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam It's a tar gzipped file. Tar does not compress files, it only concatenates them together. gzip does the actual compressing. This is the Unix philosophy: Let a tool do one thing and do it well.
So the long way to decompress it is: gunzip file.tgz | tar xvf - Meaning decompress the file, pipe it to tar which then reads from standard input and unpack that stream. The short way is tar zxvf file.tar.gz For bzip2 files (newer tar): tar jxvf file.tar.bz2 Install unp, a very nice script that unpacks basically anything without any commandline options. apt-get install unp -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
